Matthew Pennock is a graduate of the undergraduate poetry writing program at the University of Virginia and received his MFA from Columbia University. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in such literary journals as Western Humanities Review, LIT, Denver Quarterly, New York Quarterly, Love Among the Ruins, Guernica: A Journal of Art and Politics, and American Literary Review, among others. He lives in Manhattan and teaches at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and works at Yeshiva University.